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Christa Pike makes first public comments since failed execution: ‘There is pain in my mind and in my soul’

In comments released by her legal team on Friday, the prisoner said that there had not been a moment since she was injected with a massive dose of the sedative pentobarbital that she had not been in pain.

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 2 sources•1 min read•Updated October 30, 2026, 2:19 PM UTC

It is Pike's first public statement since she survived an execution attempt by lethal injection in September.

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